2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

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INFORMS Nashville – 2016

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identifies optimal candidate locations to maximize equitable coverage and the second phase is to identify an optimal closed loop for minimize distance travelled by the mobile-outlet. 2 - A Multi-modal Vehicle Routing Model For Post-disaster Relief Supply In Inaccessible Mountainous Regions Abhinav Khare, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY, United States, abhinavk@buffalo.edu, Rajan Batta, Jee Eun Kang Earthquake in mountainous regions pose a great logistics challenge for the relief- providing agencies. A large part of the affected population is located in remote areas putting pressure on the humanitarian community to design a response enabling access to these areas. We present a multi-modal vehicle routing model for such a scenario. In our model, we supplement regular air transport with porters/animal packs for last mile deliveries to villages accessible only by mountain trails. The helicopters carrying relief are routed through the Helicopter Landing Zones which form the depots for the porters performing last mile delivery. The model is tested on data collected from the 2015 Nepal earthquake. 3 - Contending With Material Convergence After A Disaster Impacting Nashville, Tennessee: An Optimal Donations Information Management System Miguel Jaller, University of California Davis, mjaller@ucdavis.edu, Jose Holguin-Veras, Luk N Van Wassenhove, Johanna Amaya This presentation discusses an optimal donations information management system to contend with unsolicited donations after a large disaster impacting Nashville, Tennessee. The analyses are based on empirical disaster donation generation models, and a mathematical formulation that minimizes total social costs. 4 - Searching For Entities Under Dynamic Emergencies Gina Galindo, Universidad del Norte, ggalindo@uninorte.edu.co, Jose Betancourt In this research we address the problem of searching for a missing entity under an emergency or disaster setting. Our problem considers events such as wildfires, with dynamic affected regions where some areas gradually become consumed by the event. We approach the problem by means of a bi-objective model which seeks to maximize the probability of finding the missing entity while trying to cover as soon as possible those areas in risk of becoming consumed by the event. WD53 Music Row 1- Omni Business Applications in Social Media Analytics Contributed Session Chair: Oscar Albeiro Herrera-Restrepo, PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 4339 Taney Avenue, Apt 401, Falls Church, VA, 22304, United States, oscar84@vt.edu 1 - The Impact Of Implementing Full Capacity Protocol On The Operational Performance In An Emergency Department Lu Wang, PhD Student, University Of Kansas, 2406 Alabama St Unit 7C, Lawrence, KS, 66046, United States, lu.wang@ku.edu, Mazhar Arikan, Suman Mallik Full capacity protocol (FCP) is a set of guidelines that coordinates the patients flow when the emergency department (ED) is overcrowded. Utilizing data from a large urban teaching hospital, we show that the operational performance of the study ED is improved after the implementation of FCP. Furthermore, we find additional improvement when the FCP is triggered. We propose recommendations to further improve the operational outcomes under FCP. 2 - Dynamic Time Warping For Cold Start Problems In Digital Advertising Pavan Murali, Research Scientist, IBM Research, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Rt 134, 04-024, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, United States, pmurali@usc.edu In digital advertising, a real-time decision has to be made to bid on a set of ad impressions daily to reach as much of the audience group as possible, while being restricted by the daily campaign budget. When a new campaign begins, there is insufficient information about click or conversion events to optimize budget allocation. We propose dynamic time warping algorithm to compare temporal characteristics of two campaigns to identify a similar campaign with significantly more data, which can serve as a proxy to estimate win and conversion rates and to optimize temporal budget allocation.

213-MCC Education III Contributed Session

Chair: Sinan Tas, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- Platteville, 1 University Plaza, Platteville, WI, 53818, United States, tass@uwplatt.edu 1 - A Course Timetabling Problem In A University Gulsah Hancerliogullari, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Macka Campus Faculty of Management, Istanbul, Turkey, ghancerliogullari@itu.edu.tr, Ozlem Pehlivan, Emrah Koksalmis Course timetabling has received much attention in the literature over the years. Each university has specific constraints, rules and objective function. Therefore, studies in the literature cannot be adapted to our course scheduling problem, which motivates us to conduct this research. The course timetabling problem involves assigning predetermined courses to available timeslots and classrooms. The aim of this study is to develop a mathematical model to assign the courses of each department to the propose timeslots for a week. We validate our model using the data collected from the university, show that our model is tractable in practice and can be solved in a reasonable amount of time. 2 - How To Advise Business Students Choose An Appropriate Concentration? We study Business students’ characteristics and factors they consider while selecting a concentration, and how well they perform in their chosen concentrations, via statistical tools and models. We look at some key demographic and academic background characteristics such as age, ethnicity, GPA, and grades, to determine which ones are important in these respects. Moreover, we conduct a survey among students in three different concentrations in our College to understand why they chose a certain concentration, and their experience. Our proposed models will be used to advise future students for selecting suitable Business concentrations, and can easily be adapted for other disciplines as well. 3 - Creative Storytelling And Choreography For Senior Design Elif Akcali, University of Florida, Dept of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 303 Weil Hall PO Box 116595, Gainesville, FL, 32611-6595, United States, akcali@ise.ufl.edu, Tzveta Kassabova, Tom Hart, Leela Corman Creative Storytelling and Choreography Lab was developed to teach some creative processes to industrial and systems engineering students to help them develop engaging and informative presentations to communicate goals, execution, and results of engineering projects to engineering and general audiences. Throughout the semester, students were systematically introduced to a host of tools for creative processes in graphic and performance arts by a multi- disciplinary instructor team were asked to utilize these tools to develop and deliver engaging narratives in the form of graphic stories or dance works. 4 - Applying Gamification In Engineering Classrooms Sinan Tas, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Platteville, 1 University Plaza, Platteville, WI, 53818, United States, tass@uwplatt.edu Gamifying classrooms can make your classes more interesting, fun, and engaging. In this talk, I will provide an example of gamification, a game called “SPOT-it!”, which consists of four mini games: Spy it!, Pop it!, Operate it! and Top it! I will also discuss the additional benefits of gamification including participation, classroom management, and grading. 214-MCC Planning for Humanitarian Operations Sponsored: Public Sector OR Sponsored Session Chair: Gina Galindo, Universidad del Norte, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, 111, Colombia, ggalindo@uninorte.edu.co 1 - Using Mobile Clinics To Address Equity In Pharmaceutical Supply Chains In Low-resource Settings Rajan Batta, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY, United States, batta@buffalo.edu, Biplab Sudhin Bhattacharya Low-resource rural settings are challenged with sparse drug availability at medicine outlets. Medicine outlets, being cash constrained, are strapped to keep up with demand. This results in people from the served community having to commute from one provider to another to avail the required drugs. A mobile- outlet location-tour model can address this issue. The first phase of the model WD52 Bhushan Kapoor, Professor and Chair, California State University -Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, 92831, United States, bkapoor@fullerton.edu, Sinjini Mitra, Zvi Goldstein

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